Lucius Smith
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Lucius (Frederick Moses Bottomley) Smith was the inaugural Bishop of Knaresborough from 1905 to 1934. Born on 6 January 1860 into a clerical family[1] he was educated at Harrow [2] and Balliol College, Oxford [3]. In 1882 he studied for ordination at Leeds Clergy School before a curacy in Toxteth [4]. He was successively Vicar of Ilkley, Richmond, Easby, Calverley and Macclesfield before a 29 year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough [5]. A thoughtful cleric[6], devout patriot [7] and historian[8] he died on 31 December 1934
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| Preceded by Inaugural appointment |
Bishop of Knaresborough 1905 – 1934 |
Succeeded by Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere |
[edit] Notes
- ^ His father was the Reverend Frederick Smith, Vicar of Shelf
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
- ^ Undergraduate at Balliol
- ^ During which time he married Lucy Bottomley
- ^ The Times, Thursday, Nov 22, 1905; pg. 14; Issue 38184; col A Ecclesiastical Intelligence
- ^ ”Religious education and the education bill: 1906 ... a charge delivered at the archidiaconal visitation, May 8th and 10th, 1906.”Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1906
- ^ "Prayers in time of war" The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Bishop of Birmingham, Canon Newbolt & others: London, Jarrold, 1914
- ^ ”The Story of Ripon Minster” Smith, L.F.M.B: Leeds, Richard Richardson,1924
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